User:Mike

March 29, 2011 3:21 PM MDT Hi Mike, Please use the following format for references:

Sample (for a web page):

Please also be careful not to delete existing information from an article if it is up to date and adequately referenced.

Thanks,

Anne Landman, CMD Editor

- Hi Mike,

I removed the following external link from the Weston A. Price Foundation article, as it did not actually mention WAPF (as is required of external articles).


 * Felicity Lawrence, Should we worry about soya in our food?, The Guardian, Tuesday 25 July 2006.

I edited down the advertising/promotional material a bit. It is good to do some serious research on this kind of material if you are going to include it, particularly for health claims. There is actually quite a lot on this organization on net.

I also merged Sally Fallon Mellon's page with WAPF, as her bio was quite brief and the WAPF page contains several refs to her, which there is no point in duplicating.

Thanks, Lisa L. December 5, 2010

Need for stub tag and more information
Dear Mike: Can you please add the code, stub inside –  to the new articles you are creating in SourceWatch?

When the article stub merely recites a person's own description of himself or herself, it seems like we are endorsing their self-promotional material. This is problematic because SW is not a general encyclopedia like Wikipedia, as you know, but is focused on revealing more about the names behind the news, what their agenda is, and who is footing the bill.

Accordingly, I'd like to ask you to please re-format the new articles to provide a more generic introductory statement about who the person is and what their affiliation, and then a section ==Controversies== that highlights any issues of concern and then ==Background== where one could put information quoting from the subject of the article, along the lines of so and so describes herself as x, y, and, z, with the references to their own website there. These changes will make the new articles more useful to people looking for more information about a person than an official website written by the subject.

Thank you. If you could please let me know that you received my message and if you have any questions or concerns, I would really appreciate it! LLisa Graves

From Anne
November 19, 2010 Hi Mike, When you start new articles on people, please add at least a little information about the person, linked to an authoritative reference. Please refrain from simply supplying a link to the Wikipedia article on the same person. We strive to have different information from that available in Wikipedia. A link to the person's wikipedia article may be included under "External resources," but please do not make that the main focus of the article.

Thanks, Anne Landman, CMD Editor --

April 14, 2010 Mike, please see and respond to my note below. Thanks,

Anne Landman, CMD Editor --

April 8, 2010 4:35 PM MDT Hi Mike, Please see and respond to my note below.

Thanks, Anne Landman, CMD Editor ---

April 7, 2010 1:47 PM MDT

Hi Mike, I noticed you have been creating a lot of new pages lately. I wonder, what is the criteria you use to pick people to start pages on? How are they related to our mission?

Thanks in advance for the insight.

Anne Landman, CMD Editor ---

Hi Mike,

I just want to say "thanks" for your contributions to TobaccoWiki. We really appreciate it. Your changes are nicely done!

Keep up the nice work.

Anne Landman, TobaccoWiki editor